Suspender-buckle.



PATBNTED MAR. 17, 1908 W. BLOOMBERG.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION 11 111) JUNE 2a, 1906.

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WILLIAM BLOOM'BERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

Application filed June 28,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAH BLOOMBERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspender- Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to suspender buckles of the rustless type in which the back of the buckle is entirely covered with webbing so that the garments of the user are protected from the corrosion of the metal.

One of my objects is to so construct the buckle that it will be unnecessary to sew the web to it.

Another object is to firmly clamp or bind the Web between the lower edge of the lever and the upper edge of the back at two points instead of holding it by deflection.

Another object is to so arrange the parts that the buckle will lie flat under draft instead of hanging at an angle.

Another object is to so construct the buckle that it can be used on thick or thin web.

Rustless buckles embodying my invention do not hold the web by deflection, but by clamping, The same buckle holds on webs of different thicknesses thereby obviating the necessity of manufacturing different sizes. hen under draft the buckles do not pull away from the web and hang at an angle. The web end need not be sewed to the buckle but is held therein by friction and deflection.

I attain my objects in the manner shown in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a back view of my buckle with the lever open; Fig. 2 a like view of a modified form; Fig. 3 a back View of the structure of Fig. 1 with the lever closed; Fig. 4 a top view of the structure of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 a view of a buckle of my invention on a piece of web; Fig. 6 a sectional view of the structure of Fig. 5 on the line :c a; and Fig. 7 a diagram illustrating how the straight edge of the lever cooperates with the bent or deflected edge of the back to clamp the web at two points.

In Figs. 1, 3 and 4 the buckle is shown with an all wire back, in Fig. 2 with a wire and sheet metal back and in Figs. 5 and 6 with an all sheet metal back. The buckle com prises a front and a back. The front is composed of the finger piece 1 and the lever 2, preferably provided with teeth 3. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

and consequently do not slip.

Patented March 17, 1808.

1906. Serial No. 323,893.

back comprises a frame 4 made up of a bottom bar 5 and a transversely deflected or bowed, centrally disposed, loop-retainer 6 which may be toothed at its upper edge 7. The sides of the frame extend above the loop-retainer and may be inclined rearwardly as shown in Figs. 4 and 6, terminating in the pivots 11 to which the front is secured. This construction results in a buckle having a slot between the bottom bar and loop-retainer and one between the loopretainer and the lever and in which the lower edge of the lever engages the upper edge of the back or loop-retainer at two points as indicated in Fig. 7. As the upper part of the frame carrying the lever is in clined rearwardly the buckle will not cause a bunch or bulge when placed on the web be cause the back of the lower loop 9 and the upper reach 10 of the web will lie in the same plane as shown in Fig. 6.

Figs. 5 and 6. One end 8 of the web is placed through the lower slot from front to back, then over the loop-retainer 6, then downward forming a loop which may engage a chape at 9, then upwards over the webbed loop-retainer 6, between the upper edge and the lever where the part 1 0 is clamped between the straight edge of the lever and the deflected or angularly disposed edge of the loopretainer.

As shown in Figs. 2, 5 and 6 the loopretainer 6 is a flat iece or bar while in Figs. 1, 3 and 4 it is s iown in the form of a doubled bent wire indicated at the part marked 6. The web around the loop-retainer 6 will not require sewing as the teeth thereon engage it and the bottom bar 5 holds the end of the web by deflection and friction so it cannot he accidentally removed from the loop-retainer.

The rearward inclination of the frame at the ivots 11 leaves a large opening between the foop-retainer 6 and the front when the lever is up for threading and also permits the lever teeth to pass the center of revolution on closing the buckle thereby increasing the clamping or binding action on the web. On account of this increased binding effect and the op osition of a straight ed e to a bowed or deected edge thick and' thin webs are held with equal security in the same buckle.

I claim 1. A suspender buckle comprising a front composed of a finger piece. and a lever; a

In use the buckle is threaded as shown in back pivoted thereto and provided with a transversely deflected loop-retainer adapted to clam a web between its deflected edge and the ever.

2. A suspender buckle comprising a front composed of a finger piece and a lever; a back pivoted thereto and rovided with a bottom bar and a transverse y deflected loopretainer adapted to clamp the web between its deflected edge and the lever.

3. A suspender buckle comprising a front composed of a finger piece and a lever; a back pivoted thereto and provided with a bottom bar and a transversely deflected, toothed loop-retainer adapted to clamp a web between its deflected, toothed edge and the lever.

4. A suspender buckle comprising a front composed of a finger piece and a lever; a back pivoted thereto having a bottom bar and a transversely deflected, toothed loopretainer, the upper part of the back being inclined rearwardlyat the pivots; said retainer being adapted to clamp a web between its edge and the lever.

5. A suspender buckle comprising a front composed of a finger piece and a lever; a back composed of a bottom bar, a transversely deflected, toothed loop-retainer and pivots carried by a rearwardly inclined portion of the back; said retainer being adapted to clamp a web between its deflected toothed edge and the lever.

6. A suspender buckle comprising a front composed of a finger piece and a lever; a back composed of a frame provided with a bottom bar, a loop-retainer and pivots carried by a rearwardly inclined portion of the frame; said retainer being adapted to clamp a web between its edge and the lever and the lower bar adapted to hold down the end of the web.

7. A suspender buckle comprising a back having abottom bar, a transversely deflected, toothed loop-retainer and pivots carried by a rearwardly inclined portion of the back; a front composed of a finger piece and a lever secured to the pivots in osition to have its clamping edge co-act wit the deflected edge of the loop-retainer, in combination with a piece of web having one end passed between the lower bar and the loop-retainer from rear to front, thence over the loop-retainer and between it and the lever'from front to rear, thence downwardly and doubled on itself and over the loop-retainer from front to rear and between said retainer and the lever where it is clamped between the deflected, toothed edge of the retainer and the lever.

8. A buckle comprising a front provided with a finger piece and a back ivoted thereto; a lever on the front and a oop retainer on the back, one of said parts being provided with a straight edge and the other with a deflected edge whereby a web may be clamped between the straight edge and the deflected edge.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM BLOOMBERG.

Witnesses RoBT. B. KILLGORE, CONRAD DIEHL. 

